Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Geoplast Spa has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SADLON, JOSEPH, who is also the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The portfolio is currently active in 1 distinct art unit.
With 1 pending office action total, the company's current prosecution footprint is small. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner means that the outcome of the current active application depends on SADLON, JOSEPH. The 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific mechanical or transportation focus for the technology being pursued at the USPTO.
This concentration allows the applicant to focus their resources on the specific requirements of this 1 art unit and the individual preferences of the 1 examiner. Managing a single active action eliminates the need to coordinate different technical arguments across multiple art units. The legal team can prioritize the procedural requirements and substantive preferences of the assigned examiner to streamline the prosecution process.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| SADLON, JOSEPH | 1 | 63.4% | +26.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18556767 | System consisting of modular elements for making raised and/or aerated ribbed floors | SADLON, JOSEPH | 5d |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18556767 | System consisting of modular elements for making raised and/or aerated ribbed floors | SADLON, JOSEPH | 5d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18556767 | System consisting of modular elements for making raised and/or aerated ribbed floors | SADLON, JOSEPH | 3635 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
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